5aThe Lord was like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces; bHe has destroyed her strongholds, And has increased mourning and lamentation In the daughter of Judah.
6 He has done violence ato His tabernacle, bAsifitwere a garden; He has destroyed His place of assembly; The Lord has caused The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion. In His burning indignation He has cspurned the king and the priest.
7 The Lord has spurned His altar, He has1aabandoned His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces Into the hand of the enemy. bThey have made a noise in the house of the Lord As on the day of a set feast.
8 The Lord has1 purposed to destroy The awall of the daughter of Zion. bHe has stretched out a line; He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying; Therefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament; They languished together.
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and abroken her bars. bHer king and her princes are among the1 nations; cThe Law is no more, And her dprophets find no vision from the Lord.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion aSit on the ground and keep silence; They bthrow dust on their heads And cgird themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem Bow their heads to the ground.
they . . . made a noise in . . . house of . . . Lord, as in . . . feast—The foe's shout of triumph in the captured temple bore a resemblance (but oh, how sad a contrast as to the occasion of it!) to the joyous thanksgivings we used to offer in the same place at our "solemn feasts" (compare Lamentations 2:22).
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